After awhile, it gets pretty exhausting to still feel offended by what Ann Coulter says, and that is exactly what she seems to be counting on; a war of attrition against those who will be offended. Coulter churns out intentionally provocative remarks that will hurt and shock people in such volume as to make her critics sound like easily offended, compulsive whiners. The only option for those who dislike Coulter is to ignore her, which means to stand back and let her grab the spotlight. After all, truth be told, her remarks about the debate were more memorable than anything said by anyone else during that evening.
Coulter’s remarks haven’t gone unpunished: her columns have been dropped from newspapers and her speaking engagements often attract protesters. However, the more publications and shows drop her, the more she is embraced as a maverick. But will there come a time when she goes too far or, worse, when Coulter fatigue sets in? Radhika Sanghani gives a perspective from the other side of the pond in the UK’s Daily Telegraph: “If you haven’t heard of Ann Coulter, you may want to count your blessings and stop reading now.” Sanghani says Coulter “seems to be on a personal campaign to be the most hated woman in her country, and by the look of things, she’s succeeding.”
Liam O’Brien, an expert in media criticism and pop culture at Quinnipac University, told ABC, “I think [her comments are] highly calculated. I’m not sure she knows what trigger on which verbal gun she is going to pull at any given moment, but I think at any particular time she has three or four of these things that are controversial and inflammatory enough to get national press notice above and beyond whatever the topic is of her book or talk show.”
Following her controversial statement about Jews on Donny Deutsch’s program in 2007, far from losing viewers and fans, requests for Coulter’s appearances increased, and perhaps the same will happen after her outrageous tweets about Jews and Israel following the GOP debates. While Coulter says offensive things about many groups, getting dangerously close to the tipping point with Jews, many of whom support her because she speaks well of Israel usually, seems to be good for her ratings. After the incident on “The Big Idea,” when she said Jews needed to be perfected, Coulter’s publicist Diana Banister told ABC News, “No one has been reluctant to book [Coulter] and we’ve had as many requests as ever, probably more.” There was speculation then that Coulter’s career as a media figurehead might be over, and those predictions were incorrect, as they might be now. Even if talk show hosts and interviewers refuse to book her, Coulter still has social media, her website and her books. In fact, a well-publicized refusal to book her might just generate more interest in her.
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* Ann Coulter has become increasingly antiusemitic since she backed that turkey, Mitt Romney, and he lost. I think she is frustrated by her bad decision and is taking it out on us…”Christkillers.”
* It seems that Antisemitism and Jew-baiting is rapidly becoming the “In” thing to feel and do.
* Jew’s must flood Fox New’s with requests to have her banned. The same for her appearing on Hugh Hewitt’s program. She is a virulent anti-semite. I say this as a fellow Republican.
* is this thing married? does she go out with men? is she in need of all this bad coverage to cover some mental disorder?
* She’s a self hating gay
* One thing I know for a fact, she will not say it to me face to face.
* F–k her! She’s a stupid sh-t!
* Coulter claims her innocence. She insists she “likes” Jews. Does she consider “f—ing Jews” a compliment? An expression (epithet) of love? How can she defend her choice of words and how could she even imagine marrying those words to begin with? Did she greet her father, “F—ing Father?” How does she speak to her lovers?
* Dennis Kline ·
Interfaith New Thought Chaplain and Spiritual Life Coach Practitioner at Asheville Wedding Officiant
she’s a loon!
* She works for Vdare (as does Michelle Malkin another prize) an openly racist, anti-semtiic group that some of their members have rightly been thrown out of mainsteam conservaitve publication so she fits right in. Only two exceptions are her and MM. She also defended council of concerned citizens in one of her books which everyone else knows it is a racist group but according to Ann they are only guilty of this 30 years ago. Which no one else things they changed except her. She is more of the Ron Paul type then anything else and she doesn’t even have the sense to see that this is wrong as she works for publication that support her comments. SHe has become more and more irrelevent in the last 10 years or so and maybe she thinks that is the Jew fault but it isn’t. She gives lip service to various causes but in the end the only issue she really cares about is that someone only white Christians from Europe are good people and supports the white supremisists who are acutally user her to try to get their ideas into the Republican party. So she is bad for Jews and also bad for the Republican party who harm themselvse with toxic people like this.
